Chameleon of the day

Okaaaay. I just posted a sounds-like on these guys ~ Fanfarlo. If you roll back to the May 15th post they did their darndest Beirut impression. With I'm A Pilot, they pull an O'Canada ~ drawing out the strings and frontman Simon Balthazar's vocals in Arcade Fire flair. Uhm, well done?

I go by Murphy

See Me River ~ ED JACKSON ~ 2009 EP The Great Unwashed on Aviation Records.

Midlake ~ ROSCOE ~ 2006 The Trials of Van Occupanther on Bella Union.

Spinto Band ~ ... MANDY ~ 2005 Nice and Nicely Done on BarNone Records.


CAKE ~ JOLENE ~ 1994 Motorcade of Generocity (Re-issued March, 2009)




XTC ~ ... NIGEL ~ 1979 Drums and Wires on Atlantic Records.

Bill Callahan out from the Smog

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle is the second solo album by Bill Callahan under his own name, released on April 14, 2009 on Drag City Records. Here's a song from that album performed last month in Columbus, Ohio. What a treat.

Bill Callahan: Rococo Zephyr from Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Cat Power covered Bathysphere on her 1996 album What Would the Community Think. She would go on to cover another Smog song; Red Apples, on her Covers Record, released in 2000.

Watch this Bill Callahan video from 2007 via Black Cab Sessions driving through the streets of LondonTown. Under the moniker, Smog, that song ~ Rivergaurd ~ was released on Callahan's seventh album Knock Knock in 1999. It's a beaut ~ and was his fourth and final collaboration with Jim O'rouke as producer.